The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review
by Joshua Ho on October 15, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
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- Android
- Mobile
- Galaxy Note 4
GPU Performance
While CPU benchmarks are currently a bit poor in nature, our GPU benchmarks are definitely more helpful when comparing between devices and across platforms. In the case of the Galaxy Note 4 with a Snapdragon 805 we see the same Adreno 420 GPU clocked at 600 MHz that is also used in the Galaxy S5 LTE-A so performance should be relatively similar.
Once again, the Galaxy Note 4's GPU performance line up quite closely with what we expect from the Adreno 420. However, due to the higher 1440p resolution the performance improvements from the Adreno 420 are relatively small or none at all unless the application renders at 1080p.
NAND Performance
While NAND performance is generally an area where it's important to avoid dipping too low, there's are some cases that seem to improve in responsiveness with faster NAND, such as updating apps in the background while doing other tasks or similar cases where data committed to NAND becomes relatively random. In order to test this we use Androbench with some custom settings.
As one can see in the test results, Samsung continues to stay near the front of the pack when it comes to NAND performance. One shouldn't expect storage performance to become a bottleneck on this device.
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xype - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Uh, huh, haha, you are teh funnay.It _is_ ugly, actually. Plenty of better looking Android devices out there. I don’t know why tech writers need to even add stuff like "design massively improved", when it’s actually not _massively_ improved.
And, no, I don’t think the iPhone 6 is massively improved design-wise (though it looks better from the front than anything Samsung offers), either.
And design is not subjective and open to interpretation. If it was, people wouldn’t be able to agree on a "best design", ever, because the type of looks people liked would be evenly divided among all kinds of designs. And there would be no rules on how to make things look good, either. Just because companies like Samsung don’t understand them it doesn’t mean that those don’t exist.
Tams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
People don't agree on 'best design ever'. Well a small group of self congratulatory can, but such a group have often lost touch with reality.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
You're shooting yourself in the foot if you're arguing that design is not subjective, as Samsung sell 300 million smartphones every year, all of them tends to follow the design language of their current flagship device. So....?tralalalalalala40 - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
They are giving phones away. Consumers like that, and Samsung is only helping google ironically. Seen their profit's this quarter?solipsism - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
So the Note 4 is thicker, header, only a 32GB only, and USB 3.0 replaced with USB 2.0 over the Note 3? Am I reading that properly?theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Probably not, because we don't know what you mean by header. :DThe phone will also come with 64GB storage and it supports SD storage at 128GB and 256GB when that size is in the stores.
The shift back to USB 2 is probably a pretty smart one, as the larger USB 3 connector isn't very convenient.
melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Using the USB 3 connector wouldn't allow you to make phone calls, among other problems. They had to get rid of it. I can't understand why testing didn't show that.NZtechfreak - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
I didn't wait for 256gb micro SD, using a full size 256gb SD in my Note 3 (modified wooden case and ribbon adapter). So, if you must have that right now you can. I'm mulling over whether to get the 512gb SD card and stay with my Note 3 until my contact renews and then grab a Note 4 or something else...rpg1966 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
"...every GPS fix is a hot fix and takes around 5 seconds" and "...I saw that it took around 50 seconds to achieve a lock".I'm sure I'm being a bit thick, but what does this mean? The initial lock is ~50s, then ~5s thereafter?
JoshHo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
The initial lock is 50s only if you deliberately clear assistance data (or it expires after a few days of non-use) with airplane mode on. Otherwise it should be less than 10-15 seconds.